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The leading solution for weapon and ammunition management (WAM) in low-capacity settings, ArmsTracker is installed or under evaluation with more than 30 military, law enforcement and other state agencies responsible for small arms, light weapons, ammunition and explosives. ArmsTracker can be installed and maintained at no cost in ODA-eligible States, often with local support from […]

Under the UN Programme of Action on Small Arms (UNPoA), every Member State is required to file a national, bi-annual report. In these, governments are encouraged to list their priorities for international assistance in areas of support offered by the UNPoA.     African and other governments commonly ask for help in the following areas of weapon

Only a tiny proportion of aid to Africa goes to one of the continent’s most pressing problems. In the past decade of international assistance reported by the OECD Creditor Reporting System, donor governments averaged $24m of aid per year for reintegration and small arms and light weapons control programmes (code 15240) across all 46 countries

As their flight made slow circles over foggy Canberra one winter morning in 2012, Alistair Gee and Philip Alpers came up with an idea. The 30-something lawyer and the 60-something academic were both deeply concerned about gun violence and were heading to the nation’s capital for talks on an international arms trade treaty. The fog

Aim (Armed Incident Management) is a public, digitised mapping tool developed by the Centre for Armed Violence Reduction (CAVR). Its aim is to assist stakeholders in any country to better prevent and respond to violence, especially in fragile communities and conflict-affected situations.  Aim assists those most in need: victims and witnesses of violence; community leaders;

ArmsTracker is being used by the Golden West Humanitarian Foundation in its US-funded project to record the destruction of surplus weapons for the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF). To date more than 10,000 weapons have been destroyed, with a target of 30,000.  ArmsTracker is now available with all text and help tips displayed in Khmer, switchable to

The most recent estimates of Global Firearms Holdings show that the whereabouts and security of 754 million of the world’s firearms are unknown. To reduce the availability of illicit weapons for crime and conflict, most governments attempt to identify and document these firearms. At the same time, they also collect and destroy unlawfully held or

The Centre for Armed Violence Reduction (CAVR) has begun a UN-funded partnership with ECOWAS, the Economic Community of West African States…

In terms of gun violence and trafficking, the Pacific is currently one of the safest regions in the world.     This was not always the case, but unlike any other region the Pacific responded to episodes of armed violence and trafficking by reducing the availability of lethal weapons and by forging a startling regional consensus for

Armed violence often cannot be significantly reduced without understanding the part played by gender attitudes in the thinking of those at risk of committing it…